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Towards utilizing Tcpcrypt in mobile healthcare applications

Nikolidakis, SA; Giotsas, V; Georgakakis, E; Vergados, DD; Douligeris, C; (2012) Towards utilizing Tcpcrypt in mobile healthcare applications. In: Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. (pp. 374 - 379). Springer Berlin Heidelberg Green open access

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Abstract

The evolution and growth of networks has made the personal data of the users available to many applications. In this direction, one of the main concerns is to protect the sensitive personal information, while at the same time avoid delays in the provision of services like healthcare to the general public. An extension of TCP, the Tcpcrypt, is a promising technology that can be used on this field. Tcpcrypt is designed to provide end-to-end encryption in the transport layer with low overhead, rendering it a very promising solution in order to protect medical data that are often handled by devices with limited resources. In this paper Tcpcrypt performance is evaluated against TCP, in terms of additional overhead incurred in the total size of the transmitted data and the total number of CPU instructions that are executed. Moreover, a solution for reducing overhead through fine-grained packet handling is proposed. © 2012 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Towards utilizing Tcpcrypt in mobile healthcare applications
ISBN-13: 9783642297335
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_51
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_51
Language: English
Additional information: © 2012Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1382989
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